Typotheque Irma Text Pro

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OpenType font family supporting Latin, Cyrillic and Greek, with their own small caps, with extensive typographic Irma Text Pro features. Irma Text Std 014623

What is OpenType? OpenType is a cross-platform font format developed by Adobe and Microsoft. It has a potential to provide advanced typographic features such as multilingual character sets, ligatures, small capitals, various numeral styles, and contextual substitutions. OpenType, as the new industry standard, supports Unicode, which enables the fonts to contain a large number of characters. While PostScript fonts are a technically limited to a maximum of only 256 characters, OpenType fonts can have more than 65,000 glyphs. This means that a user does not need to have separate fonts for Western, Central European, Baltic, Cyrillic or Greek languages, but could have one single file which supports all these encodings. OpenType fonts work in all applications, however only some applications take advantage of the advanced OpenType features. Other applications will only use the first 256 characters.

© 2011, Typotheque.com. For information purposes Irma Text Thin Irma Text Thin Italic Irma Text ExtraLight Irma Text ExtraLight Italic Irma Text Light Irma Text Light Italic Irma Text Regular Irma Text Regular Italic Irma Text Medium Irma Text Medium Italic Irma Text SemiBold Irma Text SemiBold Italic Irma Text Bold Irma Text Bold Italic Irma Text Heavy Irma Text Heavy Italic Irma Text Black Irma Text Black Italic

About the typeface About the designer Irma Text is a fluid Sans-serif typeface, reconciling two incompatible Peter Biľak was born in Czechoslovakia, lives in the Netherlands. construction principles. It inherits the geometrically constructed Works in the field of editorial, graphic, and type design, teaches structure from the previously published Irma Display typefaces. At part time at the Royal Academy in The Hague. Started Typotheque the same time, the underlying drawing principle leads to dynamic in 1999, Dot Dot Dot in 2000, and Indian Type Foundry in 2009. forms, borrowing some inspiration from cursive writing. While Member of AGI (Alliance Graphique Internationale). mixing geometry with more handwritten models may appear at first sight as a paradox, the synthesis of two different constructions principles lends the typeface its unique character. Irma Text is sophisticated and personal, yet composed and assured.

© 2011, Typotheque.com. For information purposes If I had to choose one event that summed up the influence of postmodernism on and expensive, impractical furniture are stock elements of design, it would be the debut of the Memphis design group at a party in Milan on the design scene. Sottsass quit Memphis in 1985: Ms. Radice Sept. 18, 1981. There are lots of reasons for picking it — not all of them good. said he felt “persecuted like a rock star” by the media fren- Memphis’s kitsch, colorful furniture was a populist representation of the post- zy around it. Sottsass, who died in 2007, refused to discuss modernist theories that had dominated avant-garde discourse in architecture and Memphis publicly for years afterwards. design for over a decade. Its success at interpreting those ideas so appealingly The cautionary tale of his love-hate relationship with encouraged others to try too. Nothing wrong with that, except that the results Memphis is to be re-enacted in “Postmodernism: Style and were often risible. Ever squirted lemon juice in an eye when using one of Philippe Subversion 1970-1990”, an exhibition opening next week at Starck’s squid-shaped lemon squeezers? Mr. Starck is to blame, but that squeezer the Victoria & Albert Museum in London. Running from Sept.

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is part of Memphis’s legacy. Memphis has been equally influential in redefining 24 through Jan. 15, it is the last of the V&A’s retrospectives of design’s relationship with the media. It was one of the first intellectually engaged major art and design movements, which have included “Ba- design groups to court mainstream media coverage, starting with its heavily roque,” “Art Deco and “Modernism.” hyped launch party. The event was so crowded that Memphis’s founder, the Italian The timing is propitious, given the parallels between designer Ettore Sottsass, arrived late, because his car got stuck in the throng. No current conditions and the economic and cultural turmoil sooner had the party ended, than his girlfriend, the design critic Barbara Radice, in which postmodernism emerged at the turn of the 1970s. published a series of articles hailing Memphis as an important new design move- “Postmodernism is a sort of early warning system for the ment illustrated by a team portrait of Sottsass and his young collaborators loung- lives we lead now,” said Glenn Adamson, who has co-curated ing in a “conversation pit” shaped like a boxing ring. Another stream of coverage the show with Jane Pavitt. “There is so much resonance with greeted the news that Sottsass’s friend the fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld had what we have just experienced: the collapse of the economy, furnished his Monte-Carlo apartment with Memphis’s designs.Thirty years after the crisis of the avant garde, and the debate about what it debut, heavily hyped parties, elaborate publicity campaigns, mediagenic portraits means to be socially progressive.”

Case Sensitive forms (case) ¡¿ab?! (doh-ehg) ▶ ¡¿AB?! (Doh-EhG) t When function ‘change to caps’ is applied from within an application (not when text is typed in caps) appropriate case- sensitive forms are automatically applied. Regular brackets, parenthesis, dashes and hyphens are replaced with their capital forms.

Small Capitals & All Small Caps (smcp & c2sc) fig.1 Small Caps ▶ Small Caps w In Adobe applications there are two methods of applying small capitals. The first one, Small Caps ( ) fig. 1 replaces only lower fig.2 e ⇧⌘H All Small Caps ▶ All small case letters with small caps. The second method, All Small Caps, fig. 2 replaces also capital letters with small capitals, and replaces regular quotation marks, exclamation points and question marks, slashes and asterisk with lowered small caps variations.

Slashed Zero (zero) 012345 ▶ 012345 v Because in some circumstances ‘0’, can be mistaken for an ‘O’, alternative forms of ‘slashed zero’ are available for all styles of 012345 ▶ 012345 figures

Standard Ligatures (liga) fiflffifflfhfk ▶ fiflffifflfhfk d Standard ligatures are those which are designed to improve the kerning and readability of certain letter pairs. For example, when fï ▶ fï this feature is activated, typing ‘f’ and ‘i’ will automatically produce the ‘fi’ ligature. Using ligatures does not affect the spelling and fì ▶ fì hyphenation of your text in any way.

Arbitrary Fractions (frac) 21/2 31/10 4125/5100 ▶ 21/2 31/10 h Typotheque OpenType fonts already include a number of pre- designed fractions. Other arbitrary fractions are easily made by 4125/5100 using the fraction feature.

Discretionary Ligatures (dlig) (1) (2) (3) [4] [5] [6] ▶ (1) (2) (3) [4][5][6] u Brioni includes handy features such as replacing hyphen and greater than/less than signs with real arrows, or automatic --> -> <-- -^, ^- ▶ ‒→ → ←‒↑↓ activation of circled numerals by enclosing them in parenthesis when the discretionary ligature feature is activated. Brackets ------> ▶ ‒------→ activate alternative inverse enclosed numerals. Discretionary ligatures are off by default in Adobe applications.

Superscript / superiors (sups) x(1+1.42 × 6) = y37 ▶ x⁽1+1.42×6⁾ = y37 z Replaces all styles of figures (old style, tabular, lining) and letters with their superior alternates, which can be used for footnotes, formulas, etc. Superior characters are more legible than mathematically scaled characters, have a similar stroke weight, are spaced more generously, and better complement the rest of the text.

Subscript / inferiors (sinf) H2O (10,00 + $500) ▶ H2O ₍10,00 + $500) i Replaces all styles of figures (old style, tabular, lining) and letters with their inferior alternates, used primarily for mathematical or chemical notation. Inferior characters are more legible than mathematically scaled characters, have a similar stroke weight, are spaced more generously, and better complement the rest of the text.

© 2011, Typotheque.com. For information purposes Tabular Lining Figures (tnum_lnum) ({[012-3456–789)]} s Tabular Oldstyle Figures (tnum_onum) Proportional Oldstyle Figures (pnum_onum) ({[012-3456–789]}) g Proportional Lining Figures (pnum_lnum) Changes figures to any selected style: Lining figures which fit ([{012-3456–789}]) f better with all-capital text, old-style figures, for use in a flow of ({[012-3456–789]}) lowercase and upper case text, or tabular (fixed width) versions.

Ordinals (ordn) 1st 2nd 3rd Mlle No1 ▶ 1st 2nd 3rd Mlle j The ordinals feature replaces alphabetic glyphs (but not numerals) №1 with their corresponding superior forms.

Currency (crcy) €$¢£¥₥₤₡₢₫₣₦₧₨₪₩₭₮₱ q Collection of various currency symbols: (U+20A0..U+20CF)

Small Caps 1234567890 Small Caps 1234567890

OpenType font format allows including more OpenType fonts can contain various styles of numerals within characters inside one single font file, so there is no one font. These different types of numbers are controlled need to have separate fonts for Old-style, Tabular, by your typesetting application (such as Adobe InDesign®, Lining figures, ornaments or small caps, given you Adobe Illustrator®, QuarkXPress 7, etc) Please note that not are using an OpenType-savvy application such Adobe all applications support OpenType features. The software InDesign®, Adobe Illustrator®, QuarkXPress 7, etc. which cannot access these advances, for example Microsoft Instead of selecting a different font, one only need Word® will use only display ‘default’ figures. If you do not to activate an OpenType feature which controls the specify which style of numerals you would like to use, the desired OpenType layout feature. application will use the ‘default’ figures. Brioni, for example, uses proportional lining figures as default. For example, to access Small Caps, go to Character menu, and select Small Caps. Alternatively you can If you go to Character and then OpenType menu in Adobe use a shortcut Command+Shift+H. applications, there you can change the numbers to any other desired numeral style.